Comedown only emerging 6 days later?

[ccc92101]

SWIM is a 22 year old male who had taken mdma on two previous occasions, with no adverse comedown or general effects. Last Sunday SWIM was at a festival and bought 3 MDMA pills. The pills were 'blue grenades' - Swim did not test them but heard that they were refutable pills and knows plenty others who took them that night.

So SWIM bought the 3 pills, and decided to drop half of one at 8.50. At 11 that night, SWIM dropped a full pill. 30 minutes later, SWIM dropped the remaining 1.5 ecstasy which we had - essentially double dropping. SWIM really shouldn't have double dropped as he isn't an experienced pill taker. SWIM was very fucking out of it for around 20 minutes and experienced a mild panic attack, thinking he might collapse and die. SWIM danced his way out of it, and managed to get to a stage where he felt\ a good buzz. SWIM went home that night, fell asleep, and did not experience any MDMA comedown symtpoms the next day.

SWIM didn't experience any comedown symptoms throughout the week, but was very disturbed whenever he thought of the panic attack he had when rolling. Aside from that, SWIM was perfectly fine.

Earlier tonight, SWIM was doing college work.
SWIM started to feel a bit dizzy and anxious, before going downstairs to get his blood pressure checked on a device SWIM owns at home. Blood pressure was certainly higher than should have been, without necessarily being at excessive levels. SWIM was shaking and shivering for a good hour and half, somewhat short of breath, etc.... but SWIM eventually started to settle down and feel normal again. SWIM attributed it to a panic attack.
SWIM went to bed, thinking it was all good.

However, SWIM started to feel all paranoid and thought he might have been hearing some noise, and the dimmed lights in the room started to become a lot more vibrant. SWIM is currently awake in his bedroom, feeling anxious and dizzy, and the general symptoms of another panic attack.... afraid to go asleep in case he doesn't wake up.
What SWIM wants to know is could he be experiencing a delayed comedown? Should SWIM be concerned about a potential heart attack or stroke in his sleep? Could SWIM have done any lasting damage to himself?

 

[myr]

Hi! SWIY should refrain from using SWIM. Read the forum rules please.

First of all always try to make sure what you ingest is really mdma. If you tried tested stuff already at least now you know what you had last week.

I believe you experience panic attack because you still think you messed up something. Don't worry you didn't cause yourself permanent damage! Your serotonin levels are low and kicked your brain in the ass with that 1,5 pills so some emotional inbalance can be expected the week following your roll. Give it a few weeks, it will subside. Don't do drugs (not even weed or coffee) for a few weeks.
Next time don't redose more than once.
General recipe: 1,5-2,0mg * your body weight= first dose. Then 1\2 of that 1,5 hours later.
Good pills: 1 pill then a half
Really strong (~200mg) pills : 3\4 pill then the rest.

I realised people do redose so advising them not to do it at all (which is the healthiest option and usually guarantees abscence of side effects) is futile. At least do it right, people.

 

[ccc92101]

Thanks for the reply and advice.

I'm still a bit freaked out though. I've been experiencing depersonalisation pretty much all day along with the odd panic attack here and there. There have been a few periods throughout the day where I felt fully connected/mentally stable, but generally been feeling very anxious/panicky and a lot of derealisation and depersonalisation going on.

I'm seriously scared I may have messed myself up properly here, why am I experiencing this a full 7 days later?

 

[Strangestuff]

Go get all your hormones checked out via blood test if it doesn't go away in a few days. Thyroid stuff like T4, T3, TSH, cortisol, testosterone. You mention you feel ok during some periods of the day. MDMA can cause hormonal disturbances (Especially with testosterone/cortisol). which go away normally with similar techniques as long term comedowns but it isn't as bad especially since you aren't constantly having these feelings. Better to get it checked out sooner than later despite the reluctance of doctors to check it out.

 

[ccc92101]

Go get all your hormones checked out via blood test if it doesn't go away in a few days. Thyroid stuff like T4, T3, TSH, cortisol, testosterone. You mention you feel ok during some periods of the day. MDMA can cause hormonal disturbances (Especially with testosterone/cortisol). which go away normally with similar techniques as long term comedowns but it isn't as bad especially since you aren't constantly having these feelings. Better to get it checked out sooner than later despite the reluctance of doctors to check it out.

Thanks. Been feeling a million times better for the past 7 hours. I'm hoping that 24 hours of mental hell was just the MDMA saying goodbye to my system while also sending me a warning sign for the future.

Could re-ignite this thread as early as tomorrow, but I'm pretty confident that the horror is gone. Won't be touching the shit for a good while though, and I'm now aware of how dangerous it is to abuse the drug.